Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-06-11
NORTHWESTERN ITEMS.
OWA

Muscatine buns are for the first time CROP
ing in a wilderness OF prohibition. The last
brewery has been closed.
The Council Blufs police bagged a burglar
Sunday night as he was making of with some
silk hsndkerchiefs, a lady's pocketbook, a
gold ring aud other toilet articles.
Between 200 and 800 business men Of Du-
buque have manifested q willingness TO be-
come members OF a board Of trade and such
an organization will soon &c effected.
Burlington has q printer, E. May, sr., who
is eighty-four years OF age, has never been
sick and feels as full Of life to-day as he did
fifty years ago. Fifty.three years Of his life
was spent In a printing Office.
Mrs. Phoebe Irwin, wife of a Keokuk mar
bic cutter, abandoned Der home a few days
ago. Her husband says there has never been
any serious difficulty between himself and
his wife, and he is at a loss TO explain her
action.
Saturday morning a young man was a.
rested at Dubuque on suspicion of being con-
cerned In a Cedar Rapids burglary. He was
very indignant at the proceeding, but the
officers feel quite confident that the right man
has been gobbled.
a great lawsuit has been commenced by the
Westinghouse Car-brake company against the
Carpenter Car-brake company for infringe
ment of patent. The suit rises out OF the
exhibition Of air-brakes near Burlington the
past three weeks.
Millions OF voracious worms are at work on
the shade trees Of Fort Madison, and unless
something Is lone to satiate their greed the
trees will in a short time be stripped OF their
endure. The WORMS are from an inch to an
inch and a half In length.
The board Of trustees OF the agricultural
college at Ames has rendered the position Of
professor OF agriculture to Prof. f.. NJ. Shell
ton, who for several years held this position
In the Kansas Agricultural college. 1t is not
known whether he Will accept.
Pat Ryan, whose second trial for the murder
of Claus Kleever was ended at Atlantic last
Saturday, was sentenced to imprisonment for
seventeen years. His original sentence WAS
for twenty years, but as he has already served
nearly three years Of the sentence Judge Loot
borrow made 1t seventeen years.
The Iowa Commandery of Loyal legion met
at Des Moines Tuesday evening and elected
officers for the ensuing year. Commander,
Col. II. L.. Sordes, Des Moines; senior vice.
commander, Maj. Higley, Cedar Rapids;
junior ~yice-commander, Col. Hannsferd,
Webster City; recorder, Maj. Ell Wibin,
Winterset,
An election was held in Clarke county on
to build u court house to cost s50,0C0. The
result 10 the court house was defeated. Some
account for the defeat on the theory thaC the
G. b. & Q. railroad would have about 50, 900
Of the tax to Iay, and in consequence thereof
manipulated the farmer vote.
The state temperance alliance has Issued a
circular to the clergymen Of the state, regard
less OF denomination, announcing that the
alliance has consented to be the medium for
the collection of funds to aid the prosecution
In the Haddock cases. The alliance is pos
sessed OF information that the prosecution
dc HailptIto " III QuIfBE TIC ufht tCIdf.
AS freight train No. 2 was coming from
Commerce to Des Molnes Wednesday morn
ing, and when about two miles from Gem
merce, an axle on a car loaded with corn
broke, throwing the car from the track and
scattering corn In abundance for a quarter of
a mile along the track. Fortunately, the
coupling held and the car was dragged along
with the train, thus preventing a more seri-
Gus wreck.
Articles Of incorporation were filed last
week with the secretary of state by the Ger
man-American Loan and Trust company of
Algona. The business OF the firm comprises
dealing In lands In Iowa, Illinois, Nebraska,
Minnesota and Dakota; and the capital stock
is fixed at 81, zoo, 900, divided into 5000
shares, at 800 each. The corporators are
Messrs. Joseph NJ. Bailey, Jr., Chas. 0. Bailey
and William l.. Barker.
A young married woman of DUBUQUE last
Friday suddenly deserted her J." " and no
clue has been obtained OF he srsabouts.
She is about twenty-five years Oh age, and
quite good bookings and the mother Of four
children, the youngest of whom is only a year
old. N~eighbors saw her leave the house In a
hurried manner Friday morning, dressed In
her best clothes. She and her spouse did not
live together happily, frequently quarreling.
The method OF disinfecting coaches, as
ordered by the board Of railroad commits
.'ioners, extends to all Iowa trains running |
Chicago and Council Bluffs. Upon
at the terminal point corrosive sub
innate, which acts as a germicide, will be
'prinkled upon the floor, followed by a selu-
Ion OF menthol, and while the train Is In mo- |
ton the closets will be treated every hour to
a dose Of solution No. 3" These strin-
GENT preventives will secure for Iowa roads
sanitary condition unequslied by anv rai.-
-oads in America.
Mr.. W.. z. Graham, OF Des Moines, has been
called to st. Louis By the of a serious !
happening to his wife and children
while erroute from the southwest, where they
had been spending the winter. They were
on the Iron Mountain road and the
breaking Of a wheel on their sleeper threw
{ from the track and into a freight train that
to be upon the siding near. The
ar was crushed as though 1t had been Of
PAPER and scarcely an inmate ESCAPED ipiury